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And *cough* a lot of CGI!

Capture resolution is only a single factor of the perceived sharpness/softness of the final image. Take that Black Magic camera with a 12k full frame sensor that was announced a few months ago. Put on an f/1 Noctilux and shoot wide open. I can all but promise you won't be complaining about too much sharpness throughout the image. 😃 On top of that, Red's image (at least in raw, I haven't done much ProRes to check it) is generally a bit less sharpened than you'll find on many mirrorless cameras if used with the same lens. I'd expect that it's mostly the OLPF, but it's also difficult to know what kind of filters are applied by the ISP on mirrorless cameras, even for what is presented as "raw" video.

Rebel moon was also shot with 5 and 6 figure lenses, had a $166 million budget, and was graded by professional Hollywood colorists......the R5II's footage would be just as different under the same situation. Not saying different cameras don't look different and obviously a Red 8K camera is built for a very different target customer, but just trying to figure out your point here.

And then he went and did another 180 🤪 Went back and tried the S1H + battery grip + over 1kg lens and...just no. I wanted to get away from that for very specific reasons. I thought, maybe I could go back, but no, I just can't. Well if I had to as in if there was no other choice, I could, but there are there options. I've wrestled with it for a few days and in the end decided to stick with the original plan. That is for video, I am covered. Not a single thing that I want or need. Rien, nada, nuffin. It's the photo side where I have had the biggest issue, but other than the very occasional random lock up issue on the A7RV, it's just the best tool for me combined with the trinity of Tamron 20-40, 28-75 and 70-180. I had to send the Samyang 35-150 back. It's just too big and heavy and that's just not for me anymore. The arrival of the S9 also helped put things in perspective because although that is purely a video unit for me..and I am still waiting on the cage just to give it some grip really, it confirmed that smaller and lighter combos is my direction. I also worked out a better way to make the 61mp A7RV work for me in that I chose it principally because it would give me the option to shoot uncompressed 61mp raw files for the max quality, but also at the turn of a dial, 26mp medium raw files which would be 85-90% of my work. Except no batch editing de-noise software will touch those files which is not something widely reported and unless you experience it and then go looking for the info... Anyway, I have reset the thing for full uncompressed raw as a setting, compressed raw as another and uncompressed crop mode as a third and flitting between those 3 modes, will reduce my file and storage size to around 40% (compared with only having to use the full 61mp uncompressed). Every time I think I've finally nailed it, there's something, but this time, I believe I have... Lumix is now a 2.5 year old system for me and my only concern (very slight) is potential overheating on the S9, but I suspect that is going to be extremely unlikely based on my use case. I've used the Sony on 3 jobs now and whilst I had a few teething issues, I think as with most tools, if you can get past a certain point, it becomes to come together. I think I just had to ride out that learning curve plus the medium raw thing was a big disappointment. The thing that finally convinced me though was I had to go back to edit the final job I shot on 24mp Nikon and though those files are easier to work with SOOC, they are not on the same level as the 61mp Sony files ultimately. Sorry for wasting everyone's time 😘